ti_gusus Wrote:What about remote Thumbnails
What is the right way to create shortcut

I'm taking from it, that at this point, there isn't a good solution as there have been no reply's to this question in a few different posts? Also davilla says there is currently no way to mount a remote disk.

Maybe there is another way, I'm use to mounting a drive in Linux or Windows then symlinking. I can think of a few ways to do it if your concern is just making the thumbnails once, and don't want to duplicate thumbnail generation.

prio to that I have created ssh keys on the ipad and copied the public key to my xbmc so I have a fully secure and silent authentication for my root user on the ipad ... the inital trasfer tool a few minutes but after that it will sync incrementally

Hidd3nFury Wrote:I tried setting up MySQL for the first time for my xbmc machines/atv yesterday and all wireless devices it was taking upwards of 30 seconds to load into my libraries.

Is there anything I can do to speed this up or is it purely an issue with the speed of my network?

I have mysql remote library running on my QNAP which has a c2d 2.8ghz using 802.11n dual band over my Time Capsule and my 96 shows (almost full) load up in less than 10 seconds, maybe about double the time my MBP takes to load. Not bad at all.

meshuga Wrote:I have mysql remote library running on my QNAP which has a c2d 2.8ghz using 802.11n dual band over my Time Capsule and my 96 shows (almost full) load up in less than 10 seconds, maybe about double the time my MBP takes to load. Not bad at all.

Can you try it via ethernet and see if you still have lag?

I can't test at the moment with the ATV cos people are using it but my main HTPC that is wired loads almost immediately. My MacBook Air is as slow as the ATV if not slower and I can't try wired cos theres no ethernet port

I was running MySQL from my office PC C2Q 2.4 and dual band 802.11n. It certainly doesn't seem to be a problem with the ATV.

UPDATE: I deleted the database and rebuilt be library from scratch and now my 600 something movies load in about 8 seconds and my 77 TV Shows load in about 10. I can deal with that

prio to that I have created ssh keys on the ipad and copied the public key to my xbmc so I have a fully secure and silent authentication for my root user on the ipad ... the inital trasfer tool a few minutes but after that it will sync incrementally

I was able to use rsync to manually transfer over my thumbs.

A couple questions:

1. If I want to set up the public/private keys, do I need to allow my server to accept root logins? (since rsync will be running as root on the aTV, but I'd like it to log in to my server as another user).

I am just playing with this. I have a Revo in my lounge with a user 'xbmc', and the Apple TV has a user 'root', so I had to modify the line above to authenticate as xbmc on the remote machine not root which it was doing by default. Did you do the same? If I created a local user called xbmc and with the same password as remote, would it then do the rsync without having to setup these ssh keys? I don't care about security in this context at all, I just want it to work.

I created an advancedsettings.xml on my iPad and it shows my mySQL library correctly (although no thumbs, obviously). However it won't play anything. Every time I go to play a video it just says that it's no longer available. I don't get it, I can access the shares via the file view (videos) and I know the database has the right SMB links because I use it with a revo and two MacBooks as well. Any ideas?

I am just playing with this. I have a Revo in my lounge with a user 'xbmc', and the Apple TV has a user 'root', so I had to modify the line above to authenticate as xbmc on the remote machine not root which it was doing by default. Did you do the same? If I created a local user called xbmc and with the same password as remote, would it then do the rsync without having to setup these ssh keys? I don't care about security in this context at all, I just want it to work.